by Cam Beckett » Thu Apr 13, 2017 6:16 pm
"Right. OK. Chronal distortion. Got it.
That's....that's going to be....we didn't have time to test anything earlier, but in principle..." he muttered.
He snatched the device and started heading back down the stairs, tossing it up and down and turning it over and mumbling.
"OK. Alien tech. Right. Works on alien principles. Makes sense. Slows down chronotons, which means it can affect chronotons. Need to amplify the field somehow -- amplify the shit out of it. Need to speed up chronotons, and reverse direction. Not going to work in this casing; I need a larger surface to work with."
"Most of the equipment that would be best for this was in the Point, but there is no Point anymore. OK, improvise. What's LEFT. ASHLIE's body? No, that's not going to be projecting anything; it's a self-contained unit. Might be useful for getting the device to the epicenter of the disaster, but that's not sufficient. Stanton's dead, and those strange boxes the military were carrying are also toast. Alright...
A projector. A projector might work; it projects photons, but combine it with an accurate enough clock, and just maybe it can send out a pulse of chronotonic energy. Where to get a clock that precise? Most of the X-Tech was in the point..
OK. So now we need an accurate clock. What makes an accurate clock. An atomic clock would be best. That means we need a caesium oscillator. Where do I get caesium. No one's drilling for petroleum here, and if we had an atomic clock, that would solve our original problem. What else is cesium used for? Vacuum tubes. ASHLIE would never allow vacuum tubes as official equipment on campus; they'd offend her sense of style. Beast might have, but, again, point kablooie. No magnetometers in the dorms, THINK, Cam, THINK.
It's photoelectric. We need an OCR reader, or a 1980s video camera, or...
Solar cells. Yes, this place is Britain and the sun is a scary myth, but there has to be a solar generator somewhere, even if just show for the Green police. We need to strip a solar cell and get at the caseium inside. Of course, it tends to explode when it comes to air, so we'll need a vacuum. There should be a janitor's closet around here, somewhere. Using the vacuum, the solar cell, a projector from a classroom, parts from a wall clock and the time device, I think I can craft something that should be able to monitor and adjust the flow of time."